Emotions on discharge!!!!
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I once took a phone call from my boss in the bath. He commented on the strange echoes.
Runway wet, wet, wet, comes to mind..
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Ah, the memories. A fairly enjoyable and interesting 29 years, when the lure of Redundacy became too much to resist. I wasn't going to get any further promotion, and saw nothing but 5 more years in Staff Appointments. I think it was 16th or 19th August 1992 when SASO MATO called me in, and handed me the blue letter confirming my release date the following January. In return, I handed him a Leave Pass covering the intervening months, padded by a few weeks of duty leading the RAF Service Weapons Shooting Team to the USA. Having largely cleared my desk already, I headed home just after lunch. Some time in January, I returned to RAF Uxbridge, cleared the Station and handed in my F1250. And that was the end of that part of my life. Period. Move on.
I took over the part-time appointment of RAF Shooting Secretary (some here know me in that role), and was house-husband to SWMBO who was still on the staff at Bracknell until her Redundancy came through some 18 months later. The most difficult part of the first few weeks was having to decide what to wear in the morning, and it took many years before I wanted to wear anything blue!! Then 10 years of my part-time job, involvement in local and National politics before a 2nd retirement and emigration to Jersey.
We are now both fully occupied in planning long-haul holidays! This dit written on my iPad, sat on the terrace, in Stellebosch, Western Cape, ZA ... we will have clocked up 63,000 miles travel this year when we get home
The RAF is but a distant and nostalgic memory, with contact retained with a few old mates ... and with too many others already having departed the fix.
I took over the part-time appointment of RAF Shooting Secretary (some here know me in that role), and was house-husband to SWMBO who was still on the staff at Bracknell until her Redundancy came through some 18 months later. The most difficult part of the first few weeks was having to decide what to wear in the morning, and it took many years before I wanted to wear anything blue!! Then 10 years of my part-time job, involvement in local and National politics before a 2nd retirement and emigration to Jersey.
We are now both fully occupied in planning long-haul holidays! This dit written on my iPad, sat on the terrace, in Stellebosch, Western Cape, ZA ... we will have clocked up 63,000 miles travel this year when we get home
The RAF is but a distant and nostalgic memory, with contact retained with a few old mates ... and with too many others already having departed the fix.
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Remember the effect upon SWMBO who is accustomed to running the show alone on a daily or weekly basis. Big shock having large wilful child who thinks he's the boss in permanent residence
Or as Milady Teeters famously put it once:
"I married you for better or worse ............. but NOT for lunch!"
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On retirement came the void. However when they actually stopped paying me I was in a boutique hotel in Key West. A month later I was back in uniform as an RO but wholly in charge of my activities. When they stopped paying me a second time I was in the airport lounge bar in Acapulco.
SWMBO will soon get used to having a subordinate handyman on tap.
In our Rotary Club an ex-chef and ex-painter and finisher have second careers as decorators. Getting involved in an organisation can give you a new sense of purpose.
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some it took many years before I wanted to wear anything blue!!
We are now both fully occupied in planning long-haul holidays! This dit written on my iPad, sat on the terrace, in Stellebosch, Western Cape, ZA ... we will have clocked up 63,000 miles travel this year when we get home
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We are now both fully occupied in planning long-haul holidays! This dit written on my iPad, sat on the terrace, in Stellebosch, Western Cape, ZA ... we will have clocked up 63,000 miles travel this year when we get home
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You have set me a challenge. When I was a sprog I had a map of the World with the overseas trips I had done. I stopped after my first tour. Now I must try my retirement routes. We still have a bottle of Stellenbosch from our trip a few years ago.
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Ditto blues but SWMBO says green doesn't suit me.
You have set me a challenge. When I was a sprog I had a map of the World with the overseas trips I had done. I stopped after my first tour. Now I must try my retirement routes. We still have a bottle of Stellenbosch from our trip a few years ago.
You have set me a challenge. When I was a sprog I had a map of the World with the overseas trips I had done. I stopped after my first tour. Now I must try my retirement routes. We still have a bottle of Stellenbosch from our trip a few years ago.
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I still have a bottle of Remy Martin, in the smoked bottle with packed for NAAFI stores printed on the label (unopened) and and also the same for a bottle of Bacardi Gold rum, both from the late 70's.
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Ian, that we picked up personally
We had a four hour toitoiuyr around - it lasted 8 1/2 hours.
We had a four hour toitoiuyr around - it lasted 8 1/2 hours.
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I still have a bottle of Remy Martin, in the smoked bottle with packed for NAAFI stores printed on the label (unopened) and and also the same for a bottle of Bacardi Gold rum, both from the late 70's.
I still have a bottle of Remy Martin, in the smoked bottle with packed for NAAFI stores printed on the label (unopened) and and also the same for a bottle of Bacardi Gold rum, both from the late 70's.
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TT, true, the K1, like the Vulcan 1s had the Mk17 regulators which could only deliver 30mm Oxygen overpressure to 50k and no pressure suits. The Mk 2s originally had the Mk21 which could deliver 70mm at 56k.
Even on the Vulcan I only went over 50k 4 times and 555 on an air test once.
Even on the Vulcan I only went over 50k 4 times and 555 on an air test once.
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TT/PN Parallax error maybe ??? I was sat behind & between the Captain & co-pilot & that's what I thought the instruments were reading - I wonder if that's how I failed Biggin Hill !!
or possibly Exlax?
Loosely, that is.
Loosely, that is.
